Moonlight

Moonlight is a pioneering piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. This Oscar-nominated avant garde film is a rare yet eloquent coming-of-age story, a poignant tale, of a young man's journey to discover himself from childhood to adulthood. The story is predominantly centered around the challenges faced by the protagonist, Chiron, as he navigates through ecstasy, agony, and beauty of falling in love while struggling with his sexuality.

Moonlight, as a movie, offers an empathetic yet restricted look into a person's life, inviting the audience to follow the life of a young black queer character who feels so alienated from the world around him that he can't see himself as he is. Carefully crafting silence to portray the notion of refusal through the queer eye, Moonlight delicately appraises what it is to be a male in the present era. Chiron adopts a more masculine persona as a means of protection against a world that demands him to be more resilient. The film touches on complex and dark themes of drug abuse, bullying, sexuality, poverty without showing the audience too much.